Opinion, incidentally
- I haven’t deserted you.
By all measures, it looks like I abandoned this blog.
But I didn’t. I was just a bad blogger and didn’t tell you I was halting things for a while.
I have big plans for this site, and I’ll share them with you in the coming weeks. But for now, take a look at the updated static [...]
- Page into post
This material used to be a “page,” permanently fixed to the right sidebar, but I’ve converted it to a “post.” It originally sprung from my July 9 post on debt and personal finance. I just didn’t want to make that behemoth any longer than it already was.
I used to have big questions about how to save money [...]
- Tour of Wright-Patt with Congressman Turner
Today I took an almost-all-access tour (sans classified information) of Wright Patterson Air Force Base, the air force’s prime research facility.
How did I come to the conclusion that the base is the number one research facility for the branch? Over 40 percent of the branch’s budget goes to the base, according to Representative Mike Turner [...]
- What the candidates are reading
Earlier this week the Gmail blog posted the reading lists of both McCain and Obama.
Obama works with Joe Biden, his vice-presidential nominee as of 3 this morning, in this January 2007 photo.
More than anything, the Gmail post was an advertisement for Google Reader, into which you, too, can tell everyone what you’re reading. Why anyone [...]
- The coolest “hard” news story in a long time
This man stole 2,865 bicycles.
Aptly, the news story that spoke of him began with, “What exactly was he planning to do with 2,865 bicycles?”
The story is from Ian Austen at the Toronto Journal, and has garnered immense attention from being picked up by the New York Times.
Apparently this man stock piled all these bicycles with the [...]
- Speaking of the Olympics
This article, posted at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, describes some kind of deficiency in coverage for Usain Bolt, the Jamaican sprinter who’s just younger than me and is the world’s fastest man.
The blog post alleges there’s something fishy going on when you can hardly find a place on the Internet to watch Bolt’s record-setting 200 meter [...]
- Links, short-form opinion on coffee
Been watching the Olympics much?
Michael Phelps seems to have garnered the most attention this year. Apparently his finish in the 100 meter butterfly was extremely close — less than one one-hundredth of a second. Omega, the watch company that keeps official Olympic race times, has not released official underwater video.
Why? Who knows. Incompetence in dealing with [...]
- Another good question about the debt series
Someone posed a question that I feel should be answered publicly.
She asked: “do you put money in a mutual fund? where do i go? what do i do?”
My answer follows.
I don’t put money into a mutual fund YET, and here’s why.
Dave Ramsey has found that for the best financial security, you should make financial steps [...]
- Compounding interest: use it for good
Before we start part six in a seven part series on debt, I ought to point you towards a story I have in today’s News Journal. It’s called “Hole in law lets man walk.”
View the story at the Journal’s site, or from a .pdf loaded from theobiter.com.
A man charged with forcibly fondling a 9-year-old girl was [...]
- Another favorite word; Jon Stewart; School’s in
Don’t you love the word ferocious?
A New York Times journalist used it when writing an article about Jon Stewart, entitled “Is Jon Stewart the most trusted man in America?”
The article, having appeared in Sunday’s print edition, is the number one most e-mailed article from the Times’ site this morning.
Jon Stewart is one of the journalists [...]
- Ballot language
Here’s a link to a Cleveland Plain Dealer blog post about tinkering with ballot language before this November’s elections.
More specifically, the post covers the tinkering with the ballot issue that, if passed, would regulate the payday lending industry to allow a maximum APR of 28 percent.
By the way, the payday lending side won the battle. [...]
- McCain, half a point. Obama… zero?
Sherrod Brown… let us down.
Krista and I can’t seem to get that old political commercial out of our heads. Not that we believe it, but it demonstrates the power that well-written commercials have over our psyche.
Luckily, Sherrod Brown hasn’t let Wilmington down.
He was one of the signatories, along with other U.S. politicians from Ohio, of [...]
- Link day
Here are three links that showcase people’s propensity for developing the world around us. Technology, culture, history. Isn’t it beautiful?
A keyboard I can’t believe isn’t mainstream yet
(Just a concept from artlebedev.com. But still striking, because its “keys” and functions change based on the application you’re using.)The design viewed from the side looks a little like [...]
- Series interlude — another question
As a clarification in my series on debt, I’d like to address a matter that a Christian brother or sister might bring up.
Question: “Doesn’t the Bible say we should just trust that God will provide, day to day? As in, doesn’t it say that we should save or invest very little, live on a portion [...]
- What about this or that?
This is part five in a seven part series on debt.
Question: “Why should I stay away from so-called ‘good’ debts, like a college education, or a house?”
Answer: There are no good debts, if you want this stupidity to cease. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, see the last post in the series, called [...]
